Urban Homelessness Policies

Solves the problem of the people who wanted to minimize homelessness in their area didn't it?

Because try and stop a city from fucking over homeless people.

Sometimes I feel this "most of them prefer the way it is" is just a way to make excuses for us not solving a problem.For example in my city of ~ quarter mil. people, there are approximately 1000 people living on the streets and another 1000 without home (no adress, permanently living in hostels, people in prisons that no longer have home).Currently I know that there is project that focuses on the families without home (afaik 300-400 ppl?), where the plan is to move them into the

My point was more about hostile architecture in general. I was trying to point out that the homeless have very few places to go - can't even shelter in a filthy public toilet. Anyone desperate enough to try has been stomped on enough without adding salt to the wound.The better solution is to try and fix the underlying cause rather than hiding the symptoms.

People do that in my city too — they're homeless people who don't have anywhere else to go. The solution is to give them housing and jobs. Until that happens, I'm okay with them sleeping on the train if they need to.

Falling asleep on a bus is a great way to get victimized. The homeless are most likely to be victimized by other homeless. It almost never gets reported to the police.It's not a shelter and it's not meant to be converted into one. To me it's an indication of an overworked and failing system that leaves people in bad situations because it has nowhere else for them to go.Sure, you could argue that because there's currently no obvious major problems, that you could ju

the homeless issue has caused cities to underprovision amenities like benches

> Never seeing homeless people or people who don't look like you doesn't mean they aren't the or that there's not a problemIn fact, many jurisdictions have practices which inflict harm on the homeless specifically to make them less visible (and/or to cause them to relocate and become someone else's problem.)

Thank you.Yes, apologies for building too many assumptions; I guess this is a bit of a hot-trigger issue for me. I've seen people genuinely believe that if one makes life sufficiently difficult for the homeless, they'll just go away. In London this has lead to appalling incidents like [1]. I thought that was where you were coming; I see now that it wasn't. Sorry again!In any case, I haven't got time to discuss this either -- gotta get back to work!1: <a href="http:&#

This is like solving homelessness by putting spikes on benches to keep people from sleeping there: It doesn't solve the problem, it just pushes it out of your jurisdiction.